What are known as soft skills , like getting along with others, are becoming much more important than commonly known hard skills. ¿Cuáles son conocidas como habilidades blandas, como llevarse bien con otros, se están convirtiendo en mucho más importante que comúnmente conocida habilidades.This is still not a general perception amongst business leaders; as recently as last year, Management-Issues reported: Esto todavía no es una percepción general entre los líderes de negocios, tan reciente como el año pasado, Gestión de Problemas informó:

The annual CEO study by PricewaterhouseCoopers has argued that what companies around the world are crying out for is CEOs with technical and business expertise, who have global experience, are strong leaders, innovative, creative and who can manage risk effectively. El consejero delegado del estudio anual de PricewaterhouseCoopers ha sostenido que lo que las empresas de todo el mundo están pidiendo a gritos es CEO con experiencia técnica y comercial, que tienen experiencia mundial, son líderes fuertes, innovadoras, creativas y que puede gestionar el riesgo con eficacia.People skills, while a bonus, were not seen as an essential, despite the fact that fewer than half of CEOs globally (and around a third in the UK) felt their HR department could manage the people agenda adequately by itself. Habilidades de la gente, mientras que un bono, no se considera un medio esencial, a pesar del hecho de que menos de los CEOs de todo el mundo (y cerca de un tercio en el Reino Unido) estima su departamento de Recursos Humanos podría gestionar la agenda de personas de manera suficiente por sí misma.

Work in networks requires different skills than in directed hierarchies, which have nurtured these CEO's for the past decades. El trabajo en redes requiere de diferentes habilidades que en las jerarquías de dirección, que han alimentado estas CEO's de las últimas décadas.Co-operation is a foundational behaviour for effectively working in networks, and it's in networks where most of us, and our children, will be working. La cooperación es fundamental para un comportamiento eficaz trabajo en redes, y es en las redes donde la mayoría de nosotros, y nuestros hijos, va a trabajar.Co-operation presumes the freedom of individuals to join and participate so that people in the network cannot be told what to do, only influenced. La cooperación supone la libertad de los individuos a unirse y participar para que la gente en la red no se les puede decir qué hacer, sólo influyó.If they don't like you, they won't connect. Si no lo hacen como tú, que no se conectan.That's like being on Twitter with no followers and never getting Retweeted (RT). Eso es como estar en Twitter sin seguidores y nunca conseguir Retweeted (RT).You are a lone node and of little value to the network. Usted es un nodo solitario y de poco valor a la red.In a hierarchy you only have to please your boss. En una jerarquía, sólo tiene que complacer a su jefe.In a network you have to be seen as having some value, though not the same value, by many others. En una red que tiene que ser visto como tener un cierto valor, aunque no el mismo valor, por muchos otros.Co-operation is not the same as collaboration, though they are complementary. La cooperación no es la misma que la colaboración, aunque son complementarios.Collaboration requires a common goal while co-operation is sharing without any specific objectives. La cooperación necesita de un objetivo común, mientras que la cooperación es compartir sin ningún tipo de objetivos específicos.Teams, groups and markets collaborate . Equipos, grupos y mercados de colaborar.Online social networks and communities of practice co-operate . Redes sociales y comunidades de práctica co-operar.Working co-operatively requires a different mindset than merely collaborating on a defined project. Co de Trabajo de la operación requiere de una mentalidad diferente que la mera colaboración en un proyecto definido.Being co-operative means being open to others outside your group and casting off business metaphors based on military models (target markets, chain of command, line & staff). Ser cooperativa significa estar abiertos a otros fuera de su grupo y despojarse de negocios basados en modelos de metáforas militares (los mercados de destino, la cadena de mando, y la línea de personal).

1)Open Educational Resources and the future of institutions en Pontydisgu. bring to learning.Uno de los acontecimientos más positivos en la tecnología de mejorar el aprendizaje durante el último año ha sido la «integración» de recursos educativos abiertos (OER).What do I mean by 'mainstreaming'? ¿Qué quiero decir con "integración"?Instead of being confined to the fringes in funded projects the creation and distribution of OERs are increasingly being seen as a strategic approach ro institutional educational strategies. En lugar de limitarse a los márgenes en los proyectos financiados por la creación y distribución de OER son cada vez más como estrategias de un transbordador enfoque estratégico institucional educativo.At the same time there has been an increase in fundfing avaiable for the creation, distribution and discovery of OERs together with added awareness of what OERs are and how they might be used. Al mismo tiempo, ha habido un aumento en fundfing disponible, para la creación, distribución y descubrimiento de la OER, junto con el conocimiento añadido de lo que OER son y cómo pueden utilizarse.That is not to say every issue has been resolved. Esto no quiere decir que cada problema se ha resuelto.The resourcing of OER creation is till an issue, although some institutions seem to be absorbing the cost into the overall budgets. La dotación de recursos de la creación de REA es hasta un problema, aunque algunas instituciones parecen estar absorbiendo los gastos en los presupuestos generales.There remain issues over how to develop OERs, given that materials often include artefacts that are covered by copyright. Hay cuestiones siguen siendo sobre cómo desarrollar OER, dado que los materiales a menudo incluyen objetos que están cubiertos por derechos de autor.Discovery – finding suitable OERs – is still not always easy. Discovery - encontrar OER adecuado - no es siempre fácil.Academic practices (and terms of service) are not always aligned with the idea of open publishing. Las prácticas académicas (y términos de servicio) no siempre están alineadas con la idea de publicación abierta.And of course we still do not as a community have a single agreed understanding of what constitutes an OER. Y, por supuesto, todavía no como una comunidad tienen una comprensión única acordada de lo que constituye una de REA.But all thes eissues can be resolved given a little time. Pero todos eissues thes puede resolverse dado un poco de tiempo.2)2009: year of the tweet en Harold Jarche. Learning and working on the webTwitter ha significativamente cambiar la forma en que se comunican en línea.Though I registered in 2007, after having tried out Jaiku, I didn't really adopt micro-blogging until mid 2008. Aunque me registré en 2007, después de haber probado Jaiku, realmente no adoptar de micro-blogging, hasta mediados de 2008.This past year I made around 5,000 Tweets or about 13 a day. El año pasado hice alrededor de 5.000 Tweets o alrededor de 13 por día.Twitter's constraint of 14o characters is its greatest asset. Restricción de Twitter de 14o personajes es su mayor riqueza.You can only get one thought or comment out at a time. Usted sólo puede tener un pensamiento o como comentario a la vez.Once you get used to the medium, it's much easier than trying to write a blog post, which of course is easier than writing a feature article, let alone a book. Una vez que se acostumbre a la media, es mucho más fácil que tratar de escribir una entrada de blog, que por supuesto es más fácil que escribir un artículo, y mucho menos un libro.In some ways, it's communication for the masses, due to the low barrier to entry. En cierto modo, es la comunicación para las masas, debido a la barrera baja a la entrada.As a blogger, it's even easier to jump onto Twitter because you are used to publishing in public and you're probably connected to a lot of people online. Charlene Croft explains how Twitter is especially good for: Como usuario de Blogger, es más fácil saltar a Twitter, ya que se utilizan para la publicación en público y probablemente esté conectado a un montón de gente en línea. Charlene Croft explica cómo Twitter es especialmente bueno para:

Connectors are individuals who know lots of people and who use those connections to their advantage. Connectors are people who have invested in social, cultural and identity capital and who can convert those intangible resources into pretty much whatever they decide to.Los conectores son personas que conocen a mucha gente y que usa las conexiones a su favor. Los conectores son personas que han invertido en actividades sociales, culturales y de identidad de capital y que puede convertir los recursos intangibles en casi todo lo que decidan.Mavens are the senders and receivers of information. They are the people who always have the pulse on the good deals and breaking stories of the day. Mavens are the trendsetters and the people who you turn to to find out about this thing or that. Citizen Journalists are types of Mavens, often scooping the mainstream media in reporting “from the ground”Genios son los emisores y receptores de información. Son las personas que siempre tienen el pulso a los buenos negocios y primicias del día. Mavens son las nuevas tendencias y las personas que gire a averiguar acerca de esto o aquello. Ciudadana Los periodistas son los tipos de Mavens, a menudo sacando los medios de comunicación en la presentación de informes "de la tierra"Salesmen are the persuaders of society. They are the people who dedicate a great deal of their lives to selling people on their ideas.Los vendedores son los persuasores de la sociedad. Son las personas que dedican gran parte de su vida a la venta de la gente en sus ideas.

Anton Zolotov takes a very NON-instructional designer approach to looking at Learning Management Systems. Anton Zolotov NO toma un enfoque muy de diseño de instrucción para mirar a los sistemas de gestión del aprendizaje.He refers to Blackboard because that's what his school uses, but his line of thinking could apply to ALL of the current LMS offerings. Se refiere a la pizarra porque es lo que usa su escuela, pero su línea de pensamiento podría aplicarse a todas las ofertas actuales de LMS.

In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, began compiling a list of "other sites like his" as he found them in his travels around the web. In November of that year, he sent that list to Cameron Barrett. Cameron published the list on Camworld, and others maintaining similar sites began sending their URLs to him for inclusion on the list. Jesse's 'page of only weblogs' lists the 23 known to be in existence at the beginning of 1999."

I teach in a K-4 computer lab. 25 classes, five a day, once a week, 42 minutes each. Like most people who teach in a lab, I’m constantly on the lookout for great lesson material, particularly ideas that tie into what the kids are learning in their regular classrooms.

So I was thrilled when my Kindergarten teachers took the time to share some lesson/project ideas they found in our Language Arts series. They provided me a photocopied list of monthly “CULMINATING PERFORMANCE TASKS” (CPTs) with timing suggestions (“sometime in December,” etc.) and I was set!

Or so I thought.

So, our Kindergarteners are currently learning about farms. This particular month’s CPT suggests the students “research farms on the Internet.” Huh, what? Kindergarteners? Many of whom are non-readers? Doing Internet research? On their own? Not happening!

I was back to the drawing board.

2) Reining in College Costs Higher-education costs are spiraling out of control, and quality leaves much to be desired. The surprising solution, argues a college president: online learning en BusinessWeek.

Even before the current economic downturn, the issue of cost had become the dominant public concern about American higher education. Over the past several decades, tuition has increased at a faster rate than inflation and faster than the growth in family incomes. Too many students graduate with staggering debt, leading many to avoid critical but low-income careers. The cost of attendance has discouraged many students from groups typically underrepresented in higher education from even thinking about going to college. In a global economy that is increasingly knowledge-based, reduced access to higher education is a problem because of its potential impact on economic growth and on the social and cultural well-being of this country.

Having conducted role plays online, twitter struck me as an ideal technology to employ. A teamwork skills training project I worked on used role plays to help emergency medical teams appreciate the knowledge, skills, and coordination required by jobs other than their own. Everyone was involved in the role plays; some students were assigned roles, and others were assigned the role of critic, all using synchronous technology.

This article examines Utah residents’ views of incentives and disincentives for the use of OpenCourseWare (OCW), and how they fit into the theoretical framework of perceived innovation attributes established by Rogers (1983). Rogers identified five categories of perceived innovation attributes: relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability. A survey instrument was developed using attributes that emerged from a Delphi technique with input from experts in the OCW field. The survey instrument was sent to 753 random individuals between 18 and 64 years of age throughout Utah.

Results indicated that the greatest incentives for OCW use were the following: (a) no cost for materials, (b) resources available at any time, (c) pursuing in depth a topic that interests me, (d) learning for personal knowledge or enjoyment, and (e) materials in an OCW are fairly easy to access and find. The greatest disincentives for OCW use were the following: a) no certificate or degree awarded, (b) does not cover my topic of interest in the depth I desire, (c) a lack of professional support provided by subject tutors or experts, (d) a lack of guidance provided by support specialists, and (e) the feeling that the material is overwhelming. The authors recommend that institutions work to transition some OCW users into degree-granting paid programs as well as adopt a marketing campaign to increase awareness of OCW. Additionally, OCW websites should make their content available to recommendation engines such as ccLearn DiscoverEd, OCW Finder, or OER Recommender and should reciprocally link to one or more of these sites.

If there ever was proof that Nicholas Negroponte wants a laptop project, not an education project, its the slick XO-3 images that Yves Behar and Nicholas Negroponte strutted out in Andy Greenberg's fluff piece "The $75 Future Computer".

A waste of OLPC resources

How can One Laptop Per Child be an education project, when all we see from it is ever more fantastical laptop designs? We've been wow'ed with their XO-2 and now XO-3 vaporware for the past year while Negroponte crows that:

But where is this same focus on education? Where is Negroponte proudly announcing new Constructionism advances? Or paradigm-shifting learning software? Or even invoking Seymour Papret's influence?

Gone is all that messy focus on children's learning. Its now all about hardware wet dreams of pixels and flat panels. And yet, even here, OLPC is more irrelevant every day, what with actual $100 laptops now for sale by others.

So excuse me if I get mad at the XO-3 hype. I'm angry at the energy devoted to fantasy XO hardware instead of OLPC educational reality. I miss the original OLPC Mission, where children, not computers, controlled our dreams.(leer más...)

1) Healthcare prognosis: more flexible, accessible, affordable2) Real time speech translation will become the norm3) The Internet moves to the 3rd dimension4) Micromanaging our environment down to the nano-level5) Get ready for mind-reading phones

Buildings that know when they need to be fixed before something breaks; sensors that tell the fire department details of a fire before they receive the emergency phone call; smart water and sewage systems that filter and recycle water. . . . .

Its that time of year here at IBM - when look to the future and make five predictions of technological trends that will change the way we live in the next five years. Given the current attention to making our cities smarter, for this years we have focused on five innovations that will change our cities in the next five years.

Importantly, the list is intended to serve as a discussion point to discuss - and debate - the prospects for our cities and how progress can be made.

If theres one common thread in all of the advances we see in the coming years, its the ability to monitor our environment with sensors and the application of analytics complex algorithms baked into software to make decisions based on all of that data. In reality, its what weve been talking about for the past year here on this blog, but we are just now beginning to see these efforts implemented at the city level to really change how cities work.

Analytics will predict the patterns of how diseases will spread, will enable buildings to evaluate the relationships between their systems and provide real-time information to management, will enable city smart grids to draw on clean energy during peak and off peak hours, find water leaks and more efficient ways to move water, and predict emergencies before they happen to limit their impact.

While these are predictions for the future, in each case the innovation is rooted in work we are just beginning to see pop up with some of our city clients or in our labs today.(leer más...)

In a universal release, The Global Language Monitor (TLGM) has proclaimed that Twitter is the Top Word of 2009. This was a result of its yearly survey of the English language throughout the English-speaking world, which, the group says, now numbers more than 1.58 billion users. In fact the word has morphed into various usages and permutations — “tweet” (a verb), “tweetered” (a verb in past-tense form), “tweeteree” (a noun, the recipient of a tweet).

In the study, Twitter was trailed by “Obama,” “H1N1,” “stimulus” and “vampire.” Then came the omnipresent suffix, “2.0,” followed by “deficit,” “Hadron,” “healthcare” and “transparency.”

In a press statement, Paul JJ Payack, president of The Global Language Monitor, said, “In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the after-effects of a financial tsunami and the death of a revered pop icon, the word Twitter stands above all the other words. Twitter represents a new form of social interaction, where all communication is reduced to 140 characters. Being limited to strict formats did wonders for the sonnet and haiku. One wonders where this highly impractical word-limit will lead as the future unfolds.”